Information Technology Project Manager

**NO 3rd Parties or Sponsorship!

Role Title: IT Project Manager

Duration: 6 months+ extensions

Preferred Location: Local to Libertyville, IL- 3 days in the office

Role Description:

We are seeking candidates with strong experience managing enterprise IT projects and working across business and technical teams. Key responsibilities will include:

• Managing project scope, schedules, milestones, and dependencies
• Identifying and escalating risks and issues
• Coordinating cross-functional business and IT stakeholders
• Managing resources and driving project delivery
• Maintaining project governance, status reporting, and documentation
• Balancing multiple priorities in an enterprise IT environment
• Lead cross-functional, enterprise initiatives that enable key capabilities across commercial, supply chain, finance, procurement, and shared services. Ensure tight alignment to the Short-Range Plan (SRP) and Mid-Range Plan (MRP), delivering measurable outcomes in growth, margin, cash, customer experience, and cycle time. From a business lens, own governance, financials, risk, and benefits realization—translating strategy into execution. Oversee a concurrent portfolio of programs and projects, optimizing priorities, resources, and dependencies to deliver outcomes at scale.
• Lead a concurrent portfolio of high-impact projects, balance scope, schedule, capacity, and risk across teams.
• Align portfolio sequencing and investments to SRP/MRP priorities to accelerate strategic objectives.
• Build integrated roadmaps—defining outcomes, milestones, budgets, risks, and resource needs across multiple workstreams.
• Run executive governance and steering cadences; drive timely decisions, accountability, and business ownership.
• Manage cross-functional and cross-project dependencies, coordinate change impacts for cohesive enterprise outcomes.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, and Compliance to align with policies, risk appetite, and regulatory/control standards.
• Proactively manage risks/issues and scenario plans to protect business continuity and investment value.
• Track and communicate performance metrics, financial impacts (CapEx/OpEx), and benefits realization at both project and portfolio levels.
• Analyze business and technical requirements to develop implementation strategies, define technical workstreams, and support successful delivery of enterprise technology initiatives.
• Partner with solution architects, developers, and business stakeholders to evaluate technical dependencies, integration requirements, implementation risks, and solution impacts across enterprise systems.

Requirements:

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with the ability to bring structure, visibility, and accountability to project delivery.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.
• 6-8 years of IT program/project management experience, preferably in enterprise IT environments.
• Demonstrated success managing business systems implementations or integrations.
• Knowledge of agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience working with vendors, offshore teams, and matrixed resources.
• Familiarity with IT governance and compliance frameworks.
• PMP, SAFe, or comparable certification preferred.